MM GRcade Cup - New Sign Ups, pg8!

Time for a new season!

Okay, massive curveball from last year. We'll be using a different game from last year because 1) I've forgotten how to make all the mod amends in MM for another one of these and 2) I found a game that doesn't need me to frig it so I'm not playing. So I'll be using a game called Ultimate Racing 2D 2 for this.

Other advantages include:
-In-game stat changes
-Shorter Races
-All the F1 tracks

Build your Team!

I need 10 people to sign up as Team Managers and create their own racing marque. I will need you to post or PM me the following:

Team Name:
Team Livery Colours: (up to 4 colours, or amend the PNG below)
Driver 1:
Driver 2:
Home GP: (Pick a race track from the current F1 grid, and I'll add it to the roster. Not sure what is available? I've added a list further below)

Allocate your Development points. You have 7 of these to allocate between:
Speed:
Acceleration:
Grip:
Turbo:
Driver Skill: (costs 2 points for 1 development point on each driver)

You can be an owner/driver, and you can put anyone in the second seat (unless they have another race seat already), but make sure no one misses out.

Here is an example of a full set of teams and liveries:


And here is the car png you can decorate if you really want to customise your team:


List of Potential Race Tracks


Drive to Victory!

So you want to be a bit more passive but still get involved in all the glory? Well then, you can just nominate yourself to be one of 10-20 drivers who can be hired into someone else's team, and I'll ask Team Managers to ensure everyone in the Driver pool gets a seat (unless we are massively over-subscribed). Job done. If you're in high demand, pick your preferred team to race for. You just need to hope that the driver version of you takes you to the Driver's Championship and your team to the Constructor's Championship.

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Decide the rules!

The way this is going to work is that we will have a season made up of 10 races which I'll do in a series of short videos. The races will be 10 laps long, which allows for some pit and weather shenanigans to occur. But one major questions is how are the points going to be allocated. We can use the F1 style points allocation of the top 10 finishers getting points between 25 and 1pt, or we can use the ingame points allocation of the top 19 finishers getting points between 30 and 1 pt allocated. Post your preference. Fastest Lap also gets 1 point. Cars regenerate energy throughout the lap which they can use to deploy ERS (Turbo) for a speed boost of 1.1x.

Show us a demo!

Okay, fair request. I've pulled together a quick example video. Excuse the audio, I'm just using a headset mic rather than my good recording mic which I would use for the race commentary.




Right, sign ups are open and we'll see if there is any interest in this.



Original OP
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Back in the day, I used to love nothing more than loading up the database in Championship Manager, taking a Conference team and editing all their players to be my schoolmates and giving them beefed up stats before making my way to glory in the Premier League. So imagine my delight when I discovered this week that you can do the same in Motorsport Manager. Except I don't really need an edge to do well in MM, and it's more fun to edit a whole grid instead of just two drivers. So I did the only conceivable thing and I've created a GRcade-based racing league.

Given a number of you are probably going to be missing the F1 during the summer break, and / or waiting impatiently for the F1 Manager game to come out at the end of August, I thought you might be interested in what happens in my GRcade edited MM world.

No need to opt in to this game. I've taken 90+ GRcade members, mainly those in the racing thread, F1 thread, those who opted into Preezy's XCOM2 game, and whoever was online at the time I was pulling the list together, and put them in every single seater race seat in the game, as well as the top tier reserve drivers, and the remaining top level drivers who are either uncontracted or in other series.

I've altered the cars to make them a little more even, and reduced the season to 7 races in the main league for my own sanity (I won't make it through 12+ before my house move happens). I'll record the top league races, and post what happens in the lower two championships as we go.

I'll get the first race loaded up tonight, and probably do race two on Monday evening and continue until the season is over or when the thread dies. Feedback and the like appreciated.

So how do things line up for the first race of the season? Qualifying results are below!

GR Cup - Round 1 - Qualifying Results

P15?!

I've got to do better than that!

GR Cup Round 1 - The Race


(this is still processing to HD as I post, and I'll use my Blue Microphone for future races)

GR Cup Round 1 - Results



Asia-Pacific Supercup - Round 1 Results (League 2)




European Racing Series - Round 1 Results (League 3)



Any and all feedback welcome

This is cool! I don't know what I'm looking at but I'm happy to not have come last!

Edit: just seen the race with commentary! Great effort Roonie - I look forward to seeing more!

Have you thought about streaming the races live?

Love this

I've decided fellow yank chocolate-milk is my rival

Man that was great.

Totally need to do these on Twitch or something so we can scream at them in real-time.

Roon Mastor's Driver of the Day:
A number of drivers made up places in today's race, but having started 15th and climbing up to the final points paying position, LewisD did a great job in the midfield today

Yaaaaay
This is awesome

Dead last? After everything I did to make you the GRcade Pirates' star striker back in 2011.

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Fun idea Roonmastor, looking forward to the rest of it!

Out performing the tools I'm given as usual. Will give this a watch this evening, looks great, nice idea Rooney

Cuttooth wrote:Dead last?

Dead last in the top division.

I know basically nothing about F1 or Motorsport.

But I'm in this

New favourite thread

great idea, pleased to be top flight, will be watching

The commentary was great. I skipped through for the highlights but enjoyed it!

Literally my only complaint is that I'm German.

P19 to P15

Superb thread idea, dude, and also casts some shame on me for not ever getting round to finishing my XCOM series

I couldn't see my name in any of those lists, just wondering if I could be added as I'd love to be part of this

This is great. Also Roonmaster, you sound like a airline pilot giving an update during a flight

N.b. That’s not a bad a thing.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Literally my only complaint is that I'm German.

I appear to be in my late-50s/early-60s.

P1 bitches!

I did awfully, may as well have just spun off like Leclerc

I'm glad you all sound into this

I've been thinking all day about Twitch logistics following your comments. I'll have to work out how to stream on Twitch. Best bet is to try and set up a trial stream looking at team performance and maybe the practice and qualification of Round 2 just to see if I can get it working well enough for a race instead of a pre-record. If I can get it going, that'll be on Sunday evening with a live race at a later date (probably Round 3).

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:This is great. Also Roonmaster, you sound like a airline pilot giving an update during a flight

N.b. That’s not a bad a thing.

I have no idea how to take that, so I'll take it positively!

Preezy wrote:Superb thread idea, dude, and also casts some shame on me for not ever getting round to finishing my XCOM series

I couldn't see my name in any of those lists, just wondering if I could be added as I'd love to be part of this

I'm damn sure you're in the database. Most likely as a reserve for one of the top teams. I'll have a dig around on Sunday.

Never too late to pick XCOM back up, it's a great game and your thread tipped me from thinking this was a nice idea to actually doing it.


The Euro and Asian leagues have an additional race before Round 2, so I'll post those results tomorrow.